Watch-maker s pliers



NITED STATES PATENT Fries.

WATCH-MAKERS PLIERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,310, dated March 31, 189]... Application filed June 10, 1890. Serial No. 354,972. (-No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN E. COBLE, a citizen of the United States, residing in Elizabethtown, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Pliers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in that class of pliers more particularlyintended for the use of clock and watch makers, and the object of my invention is to remove the hands from a time-piece bylifting them vertically from the center post and holding them in the pliers until it is intended to drop or remove them therefrom.

My invention consists in constructing the pliers with two jaws, as is usual, but with the lower jaw bifurcated vertically so as to be adapted to embrace the center post of a timepiece, and with the upper jaw having a pin, lug, or teat formed on the under side thereof above the slot formed by the bifurcation of the lower jaw. These pliers can be made of different sizes, suitable for use with either clocks or watches.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, forming apart of this specilication, in which Figure l is a perspective view of a pliers embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side View of the same, and Fig. 3 a top view of the outer end of the upper handle of the pliers.

Similar letters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the details of the drawings, A and B represent the upper and lowerhandles of the pliers, and a and bthe lowerand upper jaws formed, respectively, on the handles A and B. The parts A a, and B b are hinged hands of a time-piece.

together, as is usual, and as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The lower jaw a is provided with a centrally-located slot, the prongs a" on each side of which are adapted to take under the On the under side of the upper jaw b there is formed a pin, lug, or teat b, so located as to be opposite the slot between the prongs a when the jaws a and b are closed together. This pin 12 engages the upper side of the pivoted end of the hand or hands desired to be detached from the center post after the prongs a have been inserted beneath said hand on hands prior to being lifted from the center post.

Formed in the outer end of one of the handles, as A, there is a slot (1, adapted to be used for removing any other pivotally-connected parts of the time-piece with which the prongs 0. cannot be conveniently engaged.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of a bifurcated jaw and a jaw having a pin, lug, or teat formed on the inner face thereof opposite the slot dividing the ends of the bifurcated jaw, substantially as specified.

2. In pliers, the combination of a lower bifurcated jaw adapted to take under the hands of a time-piece and embrace the center post thereof, and an upperjaw constructed to hold the hands of said time-piece on the lower jaw as said hands are removed from the center post, substantially as specified.

EDWIN E. COBLE. Witnesses:

A. DISSINGER, S. B. McLANAoHAN. 

